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Converting Text to Dates

MDY, DMY, MMDDYYYY, oh my! You may be no stranger to Excel date values and date/time formats, but what happens when you encounter a format so strange that Excel has no choice but to surrender and treat it as text?

In this demo I’ll show you how to “force” dates from meaningless text strings into proper date values using functions like LEFT, MID and RIGHT.

COMMON USE CASES:

  • Reformatting fields that Excel doesn’t recognize as common date types
  • Converting dates from text to date values, to use them for date/time or time-series analysis

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